The Martinsville-Henry County Community Nature Initiative offers children, youth  and adults an interactive approach to outdoor learning. By using nature to stimulate learning, the program aims to become a leader in facilitating nature and outdoor education programming. Through providing opportunities for quality family outdoor experiences, promoting healthy lifestyles and increasing the value of community green spaces, the program not only creates unique learning experiences for all ages, but aims to bolster the quality of life for everyone in the community.

Through a three-year grant provided by The Harvest Foundation of the Piedmont, the program also compliments the content students receive in traditional classrooms in the Martinsville and Henry County school systems. Providing learning opportunities for children in an outdoor setting not only helps children appreciate the environment, but it has also been linked to helping them develop lifelong creative thinking skills as well as healthy and physically active lifestyles.

Earth Week Celebration 2010

Celebrate Earth Week with the Virginia Museum of Natural History and enter for a chance to win a grand prize!  If you attend three museum Earth Week events and have your passport stamped, you could have a chance to win!  Don't forget that the exciting week culminates with the Earth Day Festival to be held Saturday, April 24 at Jack Dalton Park in Henry County from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.  Passports can be picked up at the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

To view a full llist of Earth Week Celebration activities, click here!

Contact

For more information about the program, please contact Tamara Poles, Nature and Outdoor Education Manager.

Tamara Poles
Nature and Outdoor Education Manager
276-634-4159
tamara.poles@vmnh.virginia.gov

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